What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in its own nature most violent, and which, in such cases, is a remedy only because it is violent, it is idle to think of mitigating and diluting. Languid war can do nothing which negotiation or submission will do better: and to act on any other principle is, not to save blood and money, but to squander them.